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Title: Bin-Laden Almost Assassinated...
Post by: Sandwich on January 26, 2006, 07:35:04 am
...almost 10 years ago, that is.  :hopping:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3206835,00.html
Title: Re: Bin-Laden Almost Assassinated...
Post by: Turnsky on January 26, 2006, 08:06:36 am
ah, if only. unfortunately for a lot of people, foresight is -not- 20/20 like hindsight can be.  :blah:
Title: Re: Bin-Laden Almost Assassinated...
Post by: Scuddie on January 26, 2006, 01:16:07 pm
...so?
Title: Re: Bin-Laden Almost Assassinated...
Post by: MatthewPapa on January 26, 2006, 03:32:35 pm
actually, there is a good chance bin laden is dead or seriously ill right now. we havent seen a tape or heard anything from him in around 3 years.
Title: Re: Bin-Laden Almost Assassinated...
Post by: achtung on January 26, 2006, 03:43:34 pm
Quote from: MatthewPapa on January 26, 2006, 03:32:35 pm
actually, there is a good chance bin laden is dead or seriously ill right now. we havent seen a tape or heard anything from him in around 3 years.

We've got a few cassette tapes.
Title: Re: Bin-Laden Almost Assassinated...
Post by: aldo_14 on January 26, 2006, 04:00:14 pm
Quote from: MatthewPapa on January 26, 2006, 03:32:35 pm
actually, there is a good chance bin laden is dead or seriously ill right now. we havent seen a tape or heard anything from him in around 3 years.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4629858.stm

Are you not paying much attention to this or something?
Title: Re: Bin-Laden Almost Assassinated...
Post by: NGTM-1R on January 26, 2006, 11:20:11 pm
While we're on the might-have-beens, it would have been nice if someone hadn't blabbed about the NSA picking up his satellite phone conversations several years back.
Title: Re: Bin-Laden Almost Assassinated...
Post by: BlackDove on January 27, 2006, 12:03:35 am
So good that you guys (USA, Israel, etc.) trained him well enough to escape in the meantime during these last ten years.
Title: Re: Bin-Laden Almost Assassinated...
Post by: WMCoolmon on January 27, 2006, 12:34:47 am
OTOH I'm inclined to say that some kind of large-scale death toll on the scale of September 11 was only a matter of time, whether every person who was supposed to be assassinated in the last 10 years got assassinated or not.
Title: Re: Bin-Laden Almost Assassinated...
Post by: Nix on January 27, 2006, 01:10:41 am
I remember hearing that Clinton had him in custody at one point, for what exactly, I cannot recall, but I recall the quote that came from Clinton's mouth was that he had no legal reason to hold him, so he gave him up to the saudis.  Not that it would have changed much in the course of history, of course, but who knows what might have happened.